bootstrapped<\/a> and never raised a \u201creal\u201d funding round, says that its service will manage about a billion core-hours of compute this year and that it has grown 2.7x every 12 months.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve already seen explosive growth on Azure in the areas of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and deep learning,\u201d Jason Zander, Microsoft\u2019s corporate VP of Azure, writes in today\u2019s announcement. \u201cAs customers continue to look for faster, more efficient ways to run their workloads, Cycle Computing\u2019s depth and expertise around massively scalable applications make them a great fit to join our Microsoft team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cycle Computing co-founder and CEO Jason Stowe \u00a0writes that his company will continue to support its existing customers, though it\u2019s unclear if this means that Microsoft will also continue to develop support for competing platforms. We have reached out to Microsoft for clarification and will update this post once we hear more.<\/p>\n
Update:<\/strong> Here\u2019s Microsoft\u2019s statement, which seems to imply that Microsoft will continue to support current clients but won\u2019t put any new development work into support for the AWS and GCP platforms: \u201cWe will continue to support Cycle Computing clients using AWS and\/or Google Cloud. Future Microsoft versions released will be Azure focused. We are committed to providing customers a seamless migration experience to Azure if and when they choose to migrate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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<\/a>While Microsoft plans to use the company\u2019s expertise to improve its Azure service for these kind of high-end workloads, Cycle Computing\u2019s flagship CycleCloud<\/a> service always supported<\/a> a wide range<\/a> of cloud and on-premises platforms, including AWS and the Google Cloud Platform. Microsoft notes that the Cycle Computing tech will help it improve its support for Linux-based high-performance computing workloads.<\/p>\n